Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's…

What characteristic of the Lion was exploited in the tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: exploit · To what, where: characteristic, tale

This is exam question 4 of lesson 152 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's daughter by giving up his teeth and claws» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 characteristic	det
2	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exploited	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Lion	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lion	det
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 characteristic	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 exploited	aux:pass
7	exploited	exploit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 tale	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tale	det
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exploited	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 exploited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exploit	past · passive		what characteristic of the Lion		the tale			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Excessive hot temper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excessive	Excessive	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 temper	amod
3	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Excessive	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Blind trust in men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 trust	amod
2	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 men	case
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trust	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Blind infatuation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 infatuation	amod
2	infatuation	infatuation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Blind infatuation with the father's cunning daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 infatuation	amod
2	infatuation	infatuation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	8 daughter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cunning	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 father	case
7	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	compound
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 infatuation	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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